I was going to say something that would be taken as controversial. Wanted to say it for years. You guys have opened the door for me to talk about it later. If someone calls me on it I can just point to you guys

I agree with everything you are saying.

Now I have to run away from the forum until a box arrives, come back in for 5 minutes then not come back to this side for awhile.

Those pics of Iceland look great. I wish I could pop over there for a vacation and drink some beer. I wouldn't want to be dropped anywhere unprepared. Especially in the North. The bears or Grey Wolves would end up making me an afternoon snack in the winter and the bugs would carry me away in the summer.

Iceland?? Iceland is beautiful. Greenland is the frozen wasteland. The misleading names were done on purpose by those who first discovered both. They wanted interloopers freezing to death by going to Greenland and wanted to enjoy Iceland for themselves.

I am glad the last few posts were made. There has been something I wanted to type up for a very very long time but chose not to as I thought it would be misunderstood and controversial. I have told this to people several times but not put it out here.

Now I have to pretend this side of the forum does not exist for a couple of days.

Ya, dunno about SEALs, but Rangers do have an extreme winter survival and bushcraft course available to them... IF they get a rotation to Alaska, and IF while they are here they take the course... But it isn't mandatory, its elective. Never could understand that, why its not required to teach them this kinda stuff.

I know a couple guys that took it. Both life long outdoorsmen, and Alaskans, and they thought it was good, but Hard. I'd love to go take it, but not being a Ranger I can't which is ironic considering the average Ranger thats posted here Doesn't take it!

Discovery also has "Naked and Afraid" which is another survival show which throws two couples onto a desert island or the austrailian outback without any clothes. I have only seen part of one episode but it seemed like an interesting idea for a survival show

I can understand someone getting in trouble going deep into the interior of Brazil and everything going wrong even if you are not risk taking. The only way I see you getting in trouble in Iceland is not having the right cloths, don't have a tent if it is winter, and you are taking risks that are not needed.

I think if they want to show people having a struggle making it get them really far from civilization, and make it someplace like Northern Canada, Siberia, or Brazil. A place like Iceland just doesn't convince me.

Well, im brazillian and if they went real, real interior to dump the guy, like northeast on the border, he would be screwed for life

Discovery also has "Naked and Afraid" which is another survival show which throws two couples onto a desert island or the austrailian outback without any clothes. I have only seen part of one episode but it seemed like an interesting idea for a survival show

There's already a topic about that one.

Just seems odd. Even cavemen and women were intelligent enough to cover their bodies with warm, furry, animal skins.

I'm with Jon on this. Not particularly difficult. I like Jon's river route ... just for the scenery. I could spend 100 hours hiking that and enjoying it.

Another note: Having participated in some civilian training with some former Rangers and SEALs most of them are not trained in traditional "bushcraft". They're trained to rely on their MRE's, gadgets, gizmos and radio to set up an extraction. I'm not bashing Rangers or SEALs. I'm just saying their training is conducted with a different end in mind.

The problem is you could not spend hundreds of hours hiking it. It is not long enough for that.